[vkou]

Or, because different factions in the regime are at odds with eachother - there's MAGA, who are a sock puppet for whatever Netanyahu wants, and who spearheaded the idiotic war with Iran, and there's the entire military, which thinks that this war is by far the dumbest thing they've been asked to do... This year.

Did this announcement come from the military side of things, or the MAGA side of things?

[JumpCrisscross]

> there's MAGA, who are a sock puppet for whatever Netanyahu wants

This vastly oversimplifies even that field.

[yonaguska]

MAGA has split hard. it's now MIGA vs AF. With MIGA being mostly boomer evangelicals and AF being younger, either outright fuentes antisemites or just anti Zionists that lean right. There is a huge astroturfing campaign to make it seem like MAGA is unanimously pro netanyahu, but it's simply fake.

[JumpCrisscross]

> MAGA has split hard

It's premature to say it has split. MAGA always had multiple factions, and Trump has historically been excellent at keeping them in line. (See: Arab Americans in Michigan voting for Trump.)

To the extent we're seeing any meanginful splits, it's in independents splitting from the GOP. Not MAGA splitting in any meangingful way. (Trump's recent primary wins show this.)

[nixon_why69]

Look at what happened to Massie. Pro-peace MAGA was always a mirage.

[vkou]

Indeed. MAGA is only pro-peace when it needs a nice-sounding lie during elections.

[fwip]

What is AF in this context?

[fny]

America first

[yonaguska]

"America First"